Siege of Budapest (1805)

The Siege of Budapest (early August 1805) was a battle of the Napoleonic Wars that occurred when Grande Armee marshal Jean-Andre Massena and an army of 1,010 French troops besieged the Austrian capital of Budapest, Hungary, defended by Joseph Philipp Vukassovich and 2,005 troops. The French had renewed their war against the Austrian Empire at the behest of the Ottoman Empire, and they conquered the Austrian capital of Zagreb in Croatia before moving on Budapest. Marshal Massena's troops stormed the city and took it with 318 losses, forcing the Austrian government to relocate to Klausenburg in Transylvania (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania).